'Expresso'?


In the cafe scene between Furious and Tre's mother, Furious asks for 'cafe au lait' with his ex-wife asking for an 'expresso' (as opposed to an espresso). Is Singleton trying to make some oblique point about people - of whatever colour - from 'challenging' backgrounds trying to sound sophisticated but not quite getting it right, thus exposing their aspirational behaviour having such shaky foundations?

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Wouldn't be the first or last time anyone mispronounced something, in person or on film...and whether or not something so trivial was intentional is anyone's guess.

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